The AI video of Trump smiling while watching Obama being arrested is nauseatating. As an aside, I wonder if the writer of The Curb your Enthusiasm jingle can sue. More to the point, this is about Epstein and Trump's hope that he can create a new thing to get MAGA all excited. So is the racist pablum about the Washington football team name. #USPol
Is he awake now?
The Daily Beast
Anti-Woke Dad Who Moved Family to Russia Sent to War Zone
Derek Huffman, 46, joined the military with hopes of becoming a Russian citizen. His wife said he was duped into a combat role.
We're all 1 awful twist of fate away from being George Retes: "Retes, who served in Iraq, said agents never told him why he was being detained @ the federal Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown LA. He was packed off, w/o a phone call, access to a lawyer, or even a way to clean the pepper-spray residue off his clothes & face, he said. While in custody he became so distressed that he was put on suicide watch, but he was still not allowed to contact an attorney."
Yahoo News
Army vet calls for investigation after being detained for three days in ICE raid
George Retes, a U.S. citizen, was held for three days after getting caught up in an immigration raid in Ventura County.
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This is personal: "Appointing the 4 Horseman of the Scientific Apocalypse — RFK Jr. as Sec of #HHS, Dr. Oz to run Medicare & Medicaid services, Dr. Makary as head of the #FDA & Dr. Bhattacharya to run# NIH — has signaled the end of any serious approach to biomedical #science & public health by the federal govt. Together & separately, they have taken a wrecking ball to our august scientific institutions that were previously considered to be the best in the world."
Salon.com
Donald Trump goes nuclear in the GOP's war on science
Billions of dollars in cuts to research are leaving lives at stake
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The administration would like the focus to be on fictional #FEMA camps rounding up white #Christians and not the concentration camps destroying the lives of kidnapped #immigrants -- and more on #Texas, #Noem, and #fascism from the amazing @Amanda Marcotte
Salon.com
Why Kristi Noem hates FEMA
No, Trump has not given up on the conspiracist mania to kill the popular agency
#Noem, dog killer, as @Nonilex always and correctly identifies her, is on a killing spree -- attacking anyone, any species that breathes. #Miller, too. "Federal immigration raids, primarily targeting Latino communities, began roiling Los Angeles in early June, animal rescues and care providers across the county are hearing desperate pleas for help."
Yahoo News
ICE raids are leaving some L.A. cats and dogs homeless
Chuco, a pit bull, was dropped at a shelter after his owner was deported last month. Many other dogs and cats in L.A. are facing similar circumstan...
 #DogsOfMastodon #CatsOfMastodon
Trump's Victory 45-47 is an idiotic fragrance that he is selling. Makes me think of Sex Panther (without any of the humor). #Trump
I think a lot about Emerson's quote, "the corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language" (Nature). With this in mind, I ask that people not use "Alligator Alcatraz" to identify the concentration camp in Florida. Do not use the language of the fascists. It masks (like the ICE agents who wear them) the reality of what is happening. Don't let them do that. #ConcentrationCamps #Fascism
Could not agree with this more. I now get my information from media that doesn't pretend that Lindsey Graham (or Josh Hawley and Tom Cotton, two other media darlings for some reason) has anything useful and accurate to say.
Salon.com
For the love of God, please stop interviewing Lindsey Graham - Salon.com
Trump's abused sycophant has nothing to say — but he's a symptom of a much bigger media problem
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"The creation of a network of concentration camps is . . . a politics, among other things, designed to draw businesses into a fascist order by normalizing dehumanization."
Concentration Camp Labor
Cannot Become Normal
 #TimothySnyder #Fascism #ConcentrationCamps